And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? (A)That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a (B)gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and (C)relenting from disaster.

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (A)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (B)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (C)love and faithfulness, (D)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (F)who will by no means clear the guilty, (G)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

15 But you, O Lord, are a God (A)merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

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18 (A)‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ 19 Please (C)pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just (D)as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”

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13     and (A)rend your hearts and not (B)your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
    (C)for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
    (D)and he relents over disaster.
14 (E)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and (F)leave a blessing behind him,
(G)a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

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The Lord is (A)gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    (C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.

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For you, O Lord, are good and (A)forgiving,
    (B)abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

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and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, (A)turns from its evil, (B)I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.

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14 And the Lord (A)relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.

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38 Yet he, being (A)compassionate,
    (B)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.

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(A)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

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How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
    How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.
I will not execute my burning anger;
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
(E)for I am God and not a man,
    (F)the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come in wrath.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:9 Or into the city

10 When God saw what they did, (A)how they turned from their evil way, (B)God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

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But Jonah (A)rose to flee to (B)Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to (C)Joppa and found a ship going to (D)Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to (E)Tarshish, (F)away from the presence of the Lord.

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But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (A)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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29 But he, (A)desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

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(A)The Lord relented concerning this:
    “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

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O Lord, (A)you have deceived me,
    and I was deceived;
(B)you are stronger than I,
    and you have prevailed.
(C)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
    everyone mocks me.

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